Jews in Ukraine

Faith in a time of war: Ukrainian Jewish chaplain aids soldiers during tribulations - interview

While Sinyakov offers spiritual guidance as the first Jewish chaplain attached to a Ukrainian military unit, he explained that eighty percent of his work was psychological aid.

Morale and spirit are difficult measured resources in times of war, but it is the job of Ukrainian military chaplain Lt. Rabbi Yakov Sinyakov to keep the faith among the Ukrainian soldiers fighting against the Russian invasion.
Dnipro, Ukraine in January 2026.

Learning Hebrew in bomb shelters: How Dnipro Jewry endures Russian invasion

Participants of nativity scene, Vertep in Ukraine, adjust their costumes before performing in the subway in Kyiv on December 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Christmas tradition depiction of Jews draws criticism after New Jersey pageant

Chanukah in a shelter in Mykolaiv

Beacons of light under fire


Yael Eckstein, JPOST’s Humanitarian Award recipient, is a hero of the Jewish people - Opinion

An example of one person making a big difference.

Rabbi Shlomi Peles

Ukraine military appoints rabbi as first-ever Jewish Religious Officer for Jewish soldiers

Rabbi David Milman has been informally tending to Jewish soldiers for many years, his position was made formal by the Ukrainian military.

 Rabbi Milman with Col. Trashok

Passover: Chabad of Poland holds 'mega-Seders' for Ukrainian refugees

The "mega-Seders" took place on April 5 and 6 – as outside Israel, there are two Seders as opposed to just one – and were held in Russian, Polish, Hebrew and English.

  Jewish Ukrainian refugees celebrate Passover at Chabad center in Warsaw, Poland.

Embodying a story of trauma and liberation, Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid new normal

Dozens of Jews from Kharkiv made the roughly six-hour train journey to Ukraine’s capital on Tuesday for a seder organized by Midreshet Schechter.

A Ukrainian Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) drives, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, September 19, 2022.

First-of-its-kind Ukrainian egalitarian Haggadah launched

The haggadah was created by Project Kesher, a feminist Jewish organization empowering women in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and the Russian-speaking community in Israel.

 Illustration by Kyiv-born artist Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi

90 olim from Ukraine land in Israel on a special flight of The Jewish Agency

The immigrants were accompanied by players of the National Football League of the USA.

 Pastor John Hagee, Founder and President of CUFI and Chairman of The Jewish Agency, Major General (res) Doron Almog, welcoming the olim at Ben Gurion Airport.

Kyiv Jews celebrate their 2nd wartime Purim with renewed resolve and optimism

Ukrainian Jews are celebrating their continued survival in their second Purim under Russia's invasion.

 Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, center, with two members of the Masorti community in Kyiv during their Purim celebration, March 6, 2023

Ukrainian-Israeli on Russia's war: I can travel the world but can't go home - interview

TML speaks to Anna Vengerovski, a 25-year-old student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about the moment she learned of the invasion and fears for her family in Kharkiv.

 A man stands on the rubble of a house destroyed by recent shelling during Ukraine-Russia conflict in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2022.

Since Russia invaded, Ukraine's chief rabbi saved countless lives

The work Rabbi Azman and those alongside him are doing is making an immense impact on the lives of thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. And until the war ends, they have no intention of giving up.

 Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman in the synagogue at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar).

Jews stuck in Ukraine like ‘insects living in the darkness’

Whether in Odesa or Mykolaiv, many Jews have been left behind in Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion, including the elderly and Holocaust survivors.

 Elena Kuklova